the wondering
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After you play the subliminal, expect to be guided to the resources and the growth challenges that enable you to become what youāve asked to become.
Do not be surprised or too hard on yourself, if you find yourself cursing the very vehicles that you yourself requested.
I think that Iām currently experiencing my own custom-made version of the kind of challenge/breakdown involved in Khan Stage 1. Not negative side-effects of unwise listening habits, in other words; but the actual uncomfortable growth challenges needed to manifest my goals.
All very nice when described as a theory or an ideaāor when observed in some other personās experience. Hits a little differently when itās happening to you.
Because part of the nature of a genuinely lived human life is that we cannot actually experience something until it happens. Growth is a perilous negotiation of unpredictable mountain passes.
Walk that path as gracefully as you can. (Including āgracefullyā falling on your ass periodically.)
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finished reading this book today. Cover to cover. Iāll need to refer to it again frequently to actually internalize it, but Iāve got a basic picture now.
Do you think for a minute @Malkuth that you were not guided to read this by The Alchemist and Quantum Limitless?
No, @Malkuth, I most certainly do not.
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Today, I was tired in the afternoon, and, due to my current schedule, I had the luxury of laying down at around 3:30. When I awoke, it was close to 5:30 and I had slept so deeply that I didnāt remember anything and thought it must be early morning. It took me some moments to piece together what had happened.
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Your personality influences/determines so much of your life (e.g., dreams, preferences, attitudes, perspectives on life, etc.).
And you do not choose your personality.
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I have read that. I have a couple of his other books, too. I like his writing but I always feel like ultimately I have difficulty synthesizing the factors and understanding the meaning of my chart, even having read a number of books.
Like my Libra Venus is conjunct my Ascendant which should be great as an artist, but it is also placed in the 12th house which as far as I can tell complicates things. It is also in a trine with an Aquarius Saturn. It gets so complex I canāt really grok the significance and a book canāt quite help with the interaction of factors. It gets complex quick.
I even had a reading by a Hellenistic astrologer about a year ago, but, honestly his reading did not resonate with me.
I wonder how you feel about such things? Do you feel youāve come to a fairly useful synthesis of the meaning of your chart?
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I am currently in love with this particular framework. But Iām also, in my typical style, taking things quite gradually. Now that Iāve read through the whole thing, Iām returning to the fundamental archetypes one by one. There are only 36 or so really major archetypes. (The planets, the signs, the houses, the ascendant, the North node. Of course, there are others too, but these will suffice for now.)
I need to feel that Iām really internalizing it and personalizing it.
So it will likely take me some time to get to the point at which Iām masterfully integrating all of the elements and navigating them with agility and ease.
What I can say is that there is a point in the book in which Forrest lays out a 5 step framework/process for assigning priority to the different elements and their inter-relationships. He uses the metaphor of a water faucet, and says that following these steps is similar to closing or opening the faucet to modulate the complexity with which one has to deal.
The first, for example, among all of those steps is to sit with the Primary Triad. The Sun (planet-sign-house), The Moon (planet-sign-house), and the Ascendant (planet-sign-house).
That Primary Triad is going to set the tone in many ways for everything else that happens. (There are always potential exceptions, but this will be true much of the time.)
Then one moves deliberately (well, deliberately in my case haha), through the remaining 4 steps. By the end, the complexity is still there, but itās organized.
There are various scenarios that can increase or decrease the prominence and influence of a given element of the chart. The trick is to be very clear on those scenarios. Itās a kind of meta-reading of the chart. When the meta-rules are in place, the complexity becomes more manageable.
The archetype of the 12th house fascinates me. I also have an important placement there. Losses. Endings. Release. Transcendence. (Being forced to) Let Go.
To me, your Libra Venus is eminently apparent and easy to accept after taking just one look at your art and the power of it.
The 12th House might affect your art in terms of placing limitations on your opportunities to practice it (confounding and dissolving ego-driven ambitions seems to be a role of the 12th House); but more interestingly the 12th House could also impact your art thematically. You might use art, in other words, to make meaning and sense of what lies beyond the self. The 12th House may inform the way that you express the harmony and coherence of your vision. I like that.
In that regard, I think that the Aquarius Saturn is a good partner to it. Aquarian non-conformity and Saturnine grim facing of stark truths. Those could give you the independence and discipline to really make the most of that 12th House artistic sensibility.
Anyway, those are initial reflections. Iām still slowly wandering amidst the archetypal monoliths. Studying the shape of each and what it has to tell me.
Gradually, Iāll start to learn how they combine and work together.
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The point of the Naissance Custom is to develop and prepare my inner resources so that they can be utilized and expressed.
The Primary Triad:
The Alchemist - My evolving insight and awareness. My soul and my soulās connections to vision, ideals, and resources. My values. My way of being.
Quantum Limitless - My mentality, my capacity to learn, to understand, to integrate. To develop and refine ideas, frameworks, and plansā¦
Mindās Eye - The power of imagination and conceptualization
The Secondary Dyad:
Harmonic Singularity: Relaxing and harmonizing into optimal synergy within my being. Intrapersonal Synergy.
Spiritual Reality Alignment: Attuning into Self-Environment and Interpersonal Synergy.
These 5 modules alone are more than worth the price of admission. Everything else builds onto them.
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When everything is added together, my Nova Elite stack has 45 modules. These 45 modules represent what I am processing and working with for the next 6 to 9 months (starting in May 2021).
My first review point will be mid-September. By then, Iāll have been with this stack for 4 months. I think that will have been enough time to adapt to Qv2,. to adapt to my particular stack itself, and to begin seeing what it is and how it works in my life.
I never really agreed with characterizing my subliminal approach as āthe Kitchen Sinkā strategy. Rather, I saw it as the natural consequence of applying a long-term perspective to subliminal use. I naturally think in terms of years, not months or weeks. So when I created my stack, I thought of where I wanted it to lead within 3-5 years. Since I wasnāt desperately impatient at that time, it made sense to me to front-load things at the beginning in order to enable powerful but streamlined customs and stacks later on.
Anyway. So, I have 45 modules. 4 of them are repeated in the custom Ultima booster. So, it adds up to 49 modules total (including the 4 duplicated modules).
After mid-September, my next planned review point will be February 2022. 1 February 2022 actually. That is the first day of the next lunar year and is, to my mind, an auspicious time to begin any new directions I might be planning.
That will have given me about 9 months with Nova Elite.
There are a couple of possible adjustments that may happen along the way:
One of the four legs of my Nova Elite table is Paragon Complete. For now, Iām just staying with the basic Paragon Complete Ultima, but later, I may integrate it into a custom with Hero modules that I really want (especially Respiratory, Reproductive, Neuroendocrine). That custom would replace Paragon in my stack. But Iām not eager to do that too soon.
The other part that can change sooner would be the other Ultima ālegā of the table. Jet Stream B. My wealth booster. I donāt expect this to change before February. But if I were to make great progress in business building, Iād replace Jet Stream with Emperor: House of Medici, or with a custom that integrates HoM, RICH, and a few other things. That seems more likely to happen next year.
So, Iām looking at Nova Elite for the foreseeable future. I donāt want to change it. I want what this stack promises. After I have that, weāll see.
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Naissance is not directly about my business. But it is about my Business Identity. Itās about how I will inhabit and interact in the world. And itās the spiritual foundation of being able to do create, develop, negotiate, guide, and direct. Itās the spiritual foundation of how I will do business.
Itās strengthening and sustaining me to the point where I can do business, but Iām not really selling the specific contents contained in Naissance. Not selling spiritual things precisely, for example.
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Last Thursday AM early, I found myself on a Zoom call being led by my sister as part of her own business and creative project. She ran it as competently and as well as she usually does anything. It was good.
Just now, it occurred to me that my participation there may well have been supported by Dynasty in my Naissance custom.
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Weāre not all meant to be in the same spaces, competing in identical tasks and for identical rewards.
Vigorously seek out and insist on your own place(s) of best fit.
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If that isnāt the most eloquent way Iāve ever seen this been put, then I donāt know.
This needs to be in the Quotes in the Emperorās Lounge 
Many seem to miss this important detail and it only occurred consciously to me recently.
The subs manifest the challenges in your life to make you overcome said hurdles. This is GOOD and important, although it seems negative at first.
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Thsnks Malkuth. Yes, limitations, both external and self imposed, have been a large aspect of my y artmaking. The biggest challenge has been figuring out how to make any of those astrological insights practical.
It was interesting, but I had a Hellenistic Astrology natal chart reading, and that modality is not particularly pyschological, and the guy spent nearly the entire hour talking about the function of Mars in my chart, as Mars rules my Scorpio Ascendant, and for that branch of astrologers, that is absolutely crucial.
I went in with a more psychological bent, having read people like Steven Forrest, and Hellenistic Astrology is much less psychological, and the astrologer pretty much ignored Venus, even knowing that I was an artist, and that it played a significant role in my life.
Anyway, this is your journal, not a thread on astrology.
Thanks.
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Forgetting this exact point is one of my talents. Iāll type it out and then forget it again a short time later.
Itās a slippery one.
I wonāt pretend to have a handle on it. Especially not today.
Anyway, thank you for the positive energy.
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I donāt think I know anything about the Hellenistic approach. What kind of information did he tell you that was most useful to you?
At present, itās a bit of both. I feel that my subliminals really manifested this topic (of astrology) and drew me to it. It seems to be serving as a kind of spiritual, archetypal map.
At present, the type of astrology thatās appealing to me the most is āEvolutionary Astrologyā. Steven Forrest also is a proponent of that, but Iād skimmed through books of others before I ever heard of him.
A part that is similarly crucial in the evolutionary approach is the North Node. As regards our efforts to intentionally develop and grow, the North node may be the most important part of the chart.
Anyway. Brainās not working now. Hope to share more perspectives on this with you.
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This is a nice interview with Chris Brennan, who is a representative of the Hellenistic current and Steven Forrest.
I listened to this a while ago but need to give it a re-listen.
These guys represent very different approaches to astrology and in listening again I sense a bit of tension from Forrest towards Brennan, who I think presents as very analytical and encyclopedic, while maybe lacking a bit in social skills and emotional intelligence.
I donāt sense rancor between them, though.
I was a bit underwhelmed by the Hellenistic reading I received from a moderately well known astrologer in that tradition.
I am now looking for a reading from someone trained in Evolutionary Astrology, though I am a bit constrained by attempting to find a relatively cheap natal consultation.
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Okay, this was a weird one.
Iāve mentioned that my subconscious is the āhouse DJā for my subliminals. It always seems to find a way, when necessary, to influence how many loops I play. If itās night-time, Iāll find that the headphones have come off or some other thing that makes me not hear. If itās daytime, Iāll find that circumstances seem to pop up that affect how and when i can listen to loops.
BUT
Today was the first time in my 1.5 years of listening that I woke up listening to subliminals when I had not been planning to or even been in the app that I use for playing them. I woke up like āhuh?ā.
Itās not paranormal or anything. I can see how the various coincidences would have happenedā¦in my sleep(!)ā¦to allow that.
Just pretty weird.
I woke up to Paragon Complete playing. It was at about 59:17. I managed to view the play history and saw that it was possible that two loops of another had played as well.
Interestingly, today is a planned subliminal day. Iām going to go ahead with my intended loops as planned.
Anyway. That wasā¦interesting. Just wanted to share it somewhere.
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Have been meaning to post this.
The visual representations (sigils) of my stack.
I created these two symbols and posted them up above somewhere:
Last month, I realized that both of these diagrams made sense as follows:
The sigil represents the function of each element of my Nova Elite stack.
I also realized that if needed, I could reduce these to only two titles.
Paragon could be absorbed into Naissance, replacing either Astral Projection or Remote Viewing. Two modules which are included for fun and enjoyment.
Ascended Mogul and/or RICH could be absorbed into PATHS. Replacing EGO ADSUM.
No plans to do that. But it was cool to know that it could be done. If I were back in time creating it again, I just might have done that.
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I love how you use images or visualization for this.
Also tells the subconscious what exactly you aim to do with the subs. Lovely!
I see a lot of magic in this
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